UNITY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GOD
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1 A. What is Unity? UNITY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GOD 1. Emphasis on people rather than on Bible doctrine, especially the mystery doctrine of the Church Age, has destroyed unity among members of the royal family of God, the body of Christ. 2. For our study, unity is defined in five different ways. a. The status of being combined with others to form a greater whole. We have been combined with other believers through the baptism of the Spirit at the moment of salvation. b. The status of being harmonious with other members of the royal family of God. c. The state of being complete, which means a maximum number of believers execute the plan of God and become invisible heroes. A maximum amount of invisible heroes in the pivot not only changes the nation, but it also provides a tremendous amount of toleration among believers. d. Complete accord among believers regarding divine viewpoint in the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. This doesn't mean we agree with each other about everything; far from it. But it does mean there is a general consensus about divine viewpoint in these areas among mature believers. e. Complete unanimity among believers regarding mental attitudes, motivations, decisions, and actions related to the plan of God. The absence of fragmentation, the absence of judging, bickering, slandering, gossiping, jealousy, bitterness, hatred, anger, revenge motivation and function, vindictiveness, violence, hypersensitivity, self-pity, guilt, and implacability. 3. The two great enemies of unity among the members of the body of Christ which always bring fragmentation are ignorance of doctrine and life in the arrogance complex 1Tim.6:1-5. Self-Justification, Self-Deception and Self-Absorption. 1, Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 2, And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 3, If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; 4, He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 4. Another enemy of unity among believers is wrong emphasis. The present trend of Christianity is to emphasize relationship with people over relationship with God, or to assume that a good relationship with people means a good relationship with God. Both are false. B. The Solution to Enemies of Unity. 1. The answer to the problem of people emphasis taking precedence over God emphasis is found in two major functions of the Christian life.
2 a. Consistent post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation, so that mystery doctrine is understood and metabolized. That dispels ignorance. b. Mastery of the utilization of the ten problem solving devices of the plan dispels arrogance. 1. Confession of sin 6. Personal Sense of Destiny 2. Filling of the Holy Spirit 7. Personal Love for the Father 3. Faith Rest Drill 8. Impersonal Love for Mankind 4. Grace Orientation 9. Sharing the Happiness of God 5. Doctrinal Orientation 10. Occupation with Christ 2. These two functions are tantamount to the life beyond gnosis, Eph 3:19, And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God., and the life beyond dreams, Eph 3:20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,. Eph 3:19, "And to come to know the love for Christ which is beyond gnosis, so that you may filled up with all the fullness of God." a. "Being filled up with all the fullness of God" demands cognition of Bible doctrine related to spiritual adulthood. b. "Being filled up with all the fullness of God" means you use the ten problem solving devices: the rebound technique, the filling of the Spirit, the faith-rest drill, grace orientation, doctrinal orientation, personal love for God the Father, impersonal love for all mankind, +H or sharing the happiness of God, a personal sense of destiny, and occupation with the person of Christ. 3. Rom 12:2, "Stop being conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your thought, that you may prove what the will of God is, namely, the good of intrinsic value achievement [advance to spiritual maturity], the well-pleasing to God [function of ten problem solving devices], the mature status quo [execution of plan of God]." a. Worldliness is a system of human viewpoint thinking. b. So being filled with all the fullness of God means execution of the plan of God. It means ignorance is replaced by cognizance of biblical truth, and that arrogance is replaced by tolerance, the function of virtue-love as a problem-solving device. c. In the next verse, this passage goes on to teach what worldliness is. The most worldly people are those involved in self-righteous arrogance and resultant legalism. Legalism is worldliness. 4. Rom 12:3, "For I say through the grace which has been given to me to everyone who is among you: stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance beyond what you ought to think, but think in terms of sanity for the purposeof being rational without illusion as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from doctrine." a. Arrogance is the major cause of fragmentation and problems among people. b. A standard of thinking from doctrine takes the place of worldliness. c. A standard of thinking from doctrine includes motivation, thought, decision, and action related to the mystery doctrine of the Church Age and the unique factors of this dispensation.
3 d. This verse mentions the word "thinking" three times. Unity is based upon thinking, not upon action as most people assume. 5. Prov 23:7, "As a person thinks in his right lobe, so he is." You are not what you appear to be overtly; you are what you think. a. Marcus Aurelius wrote, "Our life is what our thoughts make it." b. Isaac Watts wrote in a hymn, "Were I so tall to reach the pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I must be measured by my soul; the mind's the standard of the man." C. The Role of Christian Fellowship Related to Unity. 1. People emphasis taking precedence over God emphasis results in destroying the benefits which might accrue from Christian fellowship. 2. Christian fellowship is never a substitute for fellowship with God. 3. The believer cannot grow spiritually or execute the plan of God through Christian fellowship and its attendant evils, such as "sharing." reversionism. a. Sharing is merely a case of the blind leading the blind, and both reside in the ditch of b. Sharing ignores the gift of pastor-teacher and the importance of the function of that gift in the communication of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. 4. Fellowship with God is the result of perception, metabolization, and application of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. 5. Fellowship with God is a part of the plan (Heb 10:25, Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.), while fellowship with other Christians is merely a result at best; at worst, it often becomes a distraction from doctrine. 6. Christian fellowship is never a substitute for post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation, or learning Bible doctrine from whomever is your right pastor-teacher. 7. God always provides a right pastor for positive volition. Remember that your right pastor must be a prepared person. D. What is the key to unity among believers? 1. The key to unity among believers is accurate teaching of Bible doctrine by qualified pastorteachers and positive response to it. 2. A qualified teacher of Bible doctrine possesses the following. a. He is a male believer. b. As such, he has the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher. c. He has the proper preparation for the function of his spiritual gift. d. The proper preparation demands exact and functional knowledge of the original languages of Scripture, and a thorough exposure to all phases of Biblical systematic theology. That is minimal.
4 3. Unprepared pastors must depend on someone else for isagogics and exegesis. Both unprepared pastors and evangelists must have their own pastor-teacher. The gift of evangelism demands that the man has a pastor-teacher. The evangelist must get most of his information from his pastor-teacher through nonface-to-face teaching if he's on the road. 4. God always provides the right pastor for positive volition. 5. God never denies doctrinal teaching to positive believers. 6. Everyone's right pastor is not found in the same geographical periphery. 7. Every evangelist must have a pastor. If he does not have a pastor, he will suffer in his ministry. The gift of evangelism does not imply the man has any more knowledge of Scripture than does the "layman" in the pew. Accuracy in the presentation of the Gospel demands perception of especially Christology and soteriology. a. Because of the nature of evangelistic modus operandi, the man with the gift of evangelism cannot always sit in his own congregation. But he must be fed like all other believers. b. While he has a spiritual gift of communication, it is not a spiritual gift designed to function in the church. It is one that causes unbelievers outside the church to listen to the Gospel message as he communicates it. c. All spiritual gifts must be fed by the pastor-teacher, including evangelism. This is why, if the evangelist is faithful in learning doctrine and in using his spiritual gift, he will inevitably learn doctrine in a non-face-to-face situation. 8. If a pastor is not prepared in the original languages, he must also have a pastor who feeds him exegesis constantly. E. The pastor is the key to unity among believers. 1. More precisely, it is the message of the pastor that is the key to unity among believers Tim 2:15 commands the pastor: "Be diligent to present yourself approved of God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed [of his message], handling accurately the Word of truth." KJV Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth a. The aorist active imperative of SPOUDO means to be diligent, to make a consistent and persistent (continuing) effort to accomplish something. Hence, it means the persistent exertion of the attributes of the soul and the function of the body to accomplish the divine objective for the pastor, which is to study and teach, study and teach, study and teach. b. The pastor as a workman doesn't run around and call on people. His job is to study and teach. c. The pastor who is not properly prepared cannot handle accurately the Word of God. He depends on some other pastor. 3. Therefore, the responsibility of the pastor-teacher s gift is to study and teach, with emphasis on the mystery doctrine of the Church Age, yet not neglecting the whole realm of Bible doctrine. 4. A pastor is not called to counsel. Counseling merely puts band-aids on problems. The teaching of Bible doctrine provides the solutions to problems from the function of the individual believer. Counseling does not give the believer the opportunity of learning and utilizing the ten problem solving devices.
5 5. The teaching of Bible doctrine includes the plan of God for the Church Age as well as the ten problem solving devices of the royal priesthood. 6. The teaching of Bible doctrine provides the key to unity among Church Age believers. Eph. 4:11, And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12, For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13, Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: a. This unity must come from within your soul. There can be no unity simply from shaking hands and smiling. The old sin nature is still there. The key to unity among believers lies in what you think. b. There can never be any unity in any place where people gather and interact with each other unless it is unity of thinking. There must be a general basis of agreement in thinking. Only Bible doctrine can take so many different personalities and provide for them the unity which is necessary for fellowship among believers to be meaningful. 7. The power of God is in the Word of God. Do not waste time on false doctrine. False doctrine fragments believers. 8. Therefore, the pastor must be diligent and persevere in the teaching of truth. He must not become distracted by involvement in theological controversies or in personality conflicts. 9. There are two traditions for the communication of Bible doctrine to the believer in the Church Age. a. Face-to-face teaching in a local church. b. Non-face-to-face teaching outside the local church. c. Both are traditional from the beginning of Christianity. d. When Epaphras left his pulpit in Colossae and became a fellow prisoner with Paul in Rome, Paul filled in for him with non-face-to-face teaching, i.e., the epistle to the Colossians. Col 1:7-10 7, As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; 8, Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. 9, For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10, That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;, 4:12; Phile 23. Paul had not visited Colossae prior to sending this epistle to them. e. While the apostle John taught face-to-face in Ephesus, he was also teaching non-face-to-face in other parts of the Roman Province of Asia. He taught a woman in this manner in 2 John. He also taught a man in this manner in 3 John. The book of Revelation is a non-face-to-face series of messages to seven churches in the Roman Province of Asia when John was banished by Nero to the Island of Patmos. f. So from the beginning, non-face-to-face has been a legitimate system of teaching. 10. So whether it is face-to-face or non-face-to-face, the pastor who is faithful in teaching Bible doctrine is the key to unity among believers. or authority. a. No pastor has the ability to bring about unity among believers by the use of his personality
6 b. The power to bring about unity belongs solely to the Word of God, as it is expressed in thoughts, motivations, decisions, and actions of believers. 11. The only basis for unity among Church Age believers is found in the content of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. This unity requires post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation, plus the understanding and the utilization of the ten problem solving devices of the plan of God. F. The Enemies of Unity. 1. Ignorance of Bible doctrine and resultant arrogance are the biggest enemies of unity. Ignorance is the cause, arrogance is the result. This means ignorance of the mystery doctrine for the Church Age, i.e., ignorance of the plan of God, the ten problem solving devices of the plan of God, our portfolio of invisible assets, the operational-type divine dynasphere. Holy Spirit. a. The result of ignorance and arrogance is life in cosmic one, where the believer grieves the b. Arrogance is a complex of sins which result in fragmentation among believers in Jesus Christ. This includes such sins as jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, self-pity, guilt, anger, hatred, inordinate ambition and inordinate competition, revenge motivation and function, gossip, maligning, judging, the demand syndrome, unrealistic expectation, and role model arrogance. c. The unity of the royal family of God as the body of Christ is based on Bible doctrine perceived, metabolized, and applied to experience. In other words, it is based on the consistent and persistent function of post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation. d. Lack of momentum in the plan of God means fragmentation among believers. 2. Christian fellowship, having eyes on people. 3. No change in self, having eyes on self. 4. Wrong execution through the use of wrong power. 5. Unrealistic expectation. 6. Role model arrogance. G. Scriptural Documentation Tim 3:2-7, "For believers will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, implacable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of God, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power; avoid such believers as these. For they are the kind who creep into homes and captivate weak, silly women who are loaded down with sins and swayed with all kinds of evil desires. They are always learning [gnosis], but never able to come to the epignosis knowledge of God." Both arrogance and conceit are listed. What is the difference between the two? Conceit is arrogant preoccupation with self. Arrogance is arrogant preoccupation with others Cor 12:25, "That there should be no schisms in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another." 3. Rom 16:17-18, "Now I urge you brethren, be alert for those believers who are causing fragmentations and apostasies contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; in fact, separate yourself from [avoid] them. For such believers are slaves to their own emotions, and by smooth and flattering speech, they
7 deceive the right lobes of the ignorant." KJV. 17, Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18, For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. a. Emotion has absolutely no spiritual connotation. The filling of the Spirit is not characterized by emotion until the Millennium. While Christ is absent from the earth during the Church Age, the filling of the Spirit, designed to appreciate Him, carries no emotion. We may have and use emotions, but it is not a spiritual function. b. Emotion cannot think and cannot apply doctrine. Emotion is all too often irrational. Emotion is strictly feeling and response to something. c. Again, ignorance is the basis for fragmentation. In the cause and effect factor, ignorance leads to arrogance. 4. 1Ti 1:3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 5. 1Ti 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee Cor 1:10, "Now I exhort you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another, and that there be no fragmentations [schisms] among you, but that you may be properly equipped in the same mind and in the same thinking [united in mind and thought]." Notice where the unity is: in the mentality and thinking of the soul. KJV. 10, Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment Cor 3:3, "For you are still carnal, for since there is jealousy and fragmentation among you, are you not carnal? Are you not walking like unbelievers?" KJV 3, For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions,1 are ye not carnal, and walk as men Cor 11:18, "For in the first place, when you come together in your church, I hear that schisms [fragmentations] exist among you." 9. Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 10. 2Jo 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
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